This isn't a physics solving problem... I just need ideas and suggestions! Thank you!?

Question

First, Please no rude answers or comments - you don't need to show everyone that you don't have a life :)

Ok... I have to make a physics scrapbook that has 4 pictures in it. So, i have to take 4 pictures that have to do with physics and under each picture I have to write 1 paragraph explaining how the picture deals with/ relates to physics.

Any ideas of what I should take pictures of?
1. I thought maybe a car driving (motion)
2. Also, a bouncy ball or throughing a pencil in the air (gravity)
3.4 and more ideas ..... best answer 12 points :)

Answer 1

You won't be able to show that the car is in motion through a picture. You can take pictures of the following simple things:
1) Tell your friend to tie a stone at the end of a string and revolve it. Then explain cetrifugal force.
2) Take a prism, if u have 1, and pass torch light through it in a dark room. If u don't have prism, then put a plane mirror inclined a bowl full of water. Explain dispersion of light.
3) You can also explain total internal reflection by simply taking picture of any reflection seen on the surface of water.
Can't think of anymore.
Sorry

Answer 2

Really, the photos could be ANYTHING. Physics explains how pretty much everything operates

How about a water tower if you can find one. Physics is used to determine the correct volume, height and pipe diameters to maintain the desired water pressure.

The classic photo for gravity would be an apple falling from a tree. The story is that Newton devised the formulations for gravity after seeing an apple fall from a tree.

Pulley systems (block and tackle) to illustrate the force, power and work formulas

A tether ball swinging around a pole illustrates circular motion, vector motion, centripetal force. A merry-go-round would work too.

A seesaw is a lever

A skier or snowboarder is a good illustration of friction

How about a classic pinball machine - you have the levers (flippers) and the spring on the plunger that fires out the ball to start play - that uses spring constants and spring force equations. And the whole motion of the ball is determined by the force and motion equations.

You should be able to make a story about almost any picture.

Did you study optics and lenses in physics? Then you can picture telescopes or cameras.
A rainbow or a prism or even a stained glass window illustrates light and refraction and wave lengths, etc.

I think you get the idea

Answer 3

I personally like the idea of having a theme for all four of your pictures. One theme is to get a picture of each of the four states of matter: solid,liquid,gas, and plasma. Then you could talk about how physics acts different with each state of mater.

For solids you have rigid bodies, where liquids, gases, and plasmas are fluids. For gases and plasmas you have the ideal gas law. Plasmas are strongly influenced by electromagnetic fields. etc All of these things change the physics you have to consider.

Depending of your level of physics you might have to do some research but if you only need a paragraph then that shouldn't be hard.

It might be hard to get a picture of a gas or plasma. For gases you could take a picture of a windmill or weather vein. For a plasma maybe a picture of the sun, lightning, or a fluorescent light bulb.

Answer 4

Those are all good suggestions above. Here's some more:

Pool or billiards
Weightlifter
Ice skater
Telescope, or any astronomical image
Boiling water
The inside of any electric appliance
Crane (at a construction site)
Bird in flight or duck in water
A straw in a clear glass of water (refraction makes it look bent)

I better stop now, or you'll spend more time choosing a picture than you will writing the descriptions!

Answer 5

Get a digital camera that takes short 45 second movies. Take a movie of someone hitting a wiffle ball from behind it. Show a frame by frame advancement of the effects of kinetic energy loss and effects of revolution of the ball and the air obstruction making it curve.

Answer 6

Roller coaster are physics giants, tackling momentum, friction, gravity.

Something that would be cool is to take a picture of the reflection of something you're going to use. Because - the mirror is also physics in action.